Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Trump:

Some of the usual suspects remain sane, New Yorker editor David
Remnick high among them. I like him, in this piece, comparing Donald Trump to Charles
Lindbergh. As he points out, learning about Lindberg gave Philip Roth inspiration
for "The Plot Against America", a superb late-Roth novel.

Wonder if anyone — now or ever — will find a way to
pulp Trump for anything in the way of a half-decent book.

Let me stay with this: Roth emphasizes that FDR was old
school, in his well-known passion for philately — stamps, how quaint; mail, how
traditional, how previous century — whereas Lindberg was hi-tech, campaigning cross-country
in a plane.